Xinshun 1730

Chapter 418

Major General Sakonoe Kwon and Ikeda Tsugumasa, the lord of the Okayama domain, who was almost raped because of unauthorized divorce, at this time could not escape the "Great Return of China" that Toyotomi Hideyoshi marched [-] miles in five days.

But when he managed to reach Shi Jian, the Dashun Army did not attack there.

After the outpost troops of the two sides made slight contact, the Dashun Army did not launch a large-scale attack.

However, the light cavalry of Dashun's government soldiers riding tall horses still left a deep impression on the warriors of the Wa Kingdom.

There are no good horses in Japan. Although Liu Yu smuggled some to the shogunate for trade credit cards, the number is not much and it is limited to "imperial use".The horse breeding technology is not good enough, and no good offspring have been bred.

In the eyes of the Japanese warriors, the Dashun soldiers are light cavalry, dressed gorgeously, wearing a woolen cloak, with two flintlock guns in their waists, and a curved saber in their hands. They always carry various strange people on their horseback. booty.

There is no armor on his body, and his equestrian skills are very good. Shi Shiyong went to Edo to "teach" the method of riding and shooting, which left a deep impression on many senior samurai who participated in Edo. In the eyes of the samurai in the Okayama Fan Army However, the riding skills of these Fubing Qingqi may not be as gorgeous as those used in Edo's history, but they are very practical.

These people came in groups of three or four, always appearing in unexpected places, savage and lacking in discipline, but they did not suffer in the limited few encounters.Often when a Japanese warrior finds the corpse of his companion, he will find that all valuables have been stripped off his body.

There was even a situation where five people rushed into a large county, robbed the county representative, and looted the property of the county representative's home.

These small numbers of light cavalry brought great psychological pressure to Ikeda Jizheng. The cavalry had always been the shortcoming of the Japanese country.

However, with such an intensity of investigation, it would be impossible not to fail to discover the troops of Ota Ziqing who had assembled and marched. The Dashun Army might be worried about the rear and had to retreat.

But it is also possible, let you come a few ways, I will only fight all the way, first gather troops to defeat the [-] troops of Ikeda Tsugumasa, and then go back to fight Ota Ziqing's more than [-] elite bannermen.

Ikeda Jizheng didn't dare to move, so he could only stick to Ishimi and wait for Ota Ziqing's order.

On the side of Ota Ziqing, he also tried his best to march in the direction of Yonago.

His biggest expectation now is that the Dashun Army is short of troops, and they didn't eat Ikeda Jizheng first and come back to eat his troops.

It's just that Dashun's scouts ran too far, and his forward troops were harassed by Dashun's scouts when he was seventy or eighty miles away from Yonago.

The local people were making a fuss, Dashun's scout Qingqi didn't have the slightest worries, instead, from time to time, in the name of "robbing the rich and helping the poor", he helped the local people kill the village and county officials they dared not kill.

The food was given to the people, and the gold and silver scouts took it away, but they couldn't take the rice anyway.

At least within eighty miles of Yonago, the initiative of battlefield intelligence was all on Dashun's side.

Fortunately, this is Japan after all, and it is easier for Japanese spies to be placed, and Ota Ziqing can also get some information on Yonago's direction.

The news was mixed.

The good news is that the Dashun Army did not attack west immediately after breaking through Songjiang City, but stayed in Yonago, waiting for the reinforcements to arrive continuously from the troop transport ships.

Driven by the Dashun Army, the local people are building ditches and building some simple fortresses in the style of Nanban in Mizi City.

This proves that the firefighting tactics are correct, and Ota Ziqing can now wait for Ikeda Tsugumasa's troops to move eastward to join him and complete the battle of Yonago.

The bad news is that the combat effectiveness of the Dashun Army is a bit scary, Songjiang City only took three days from being besieged to being captured.

Moreover, the port is continuously transporting troops here, and the Dashun Army has a good relationship with the local people. They even shouted the slogan "Liberate the people and hang upside down", and many radical people who participated in Yikui continued to join.

There are a lot of cannons, and the army uses a strange kind of musket without matchlock. The formation is very dense, and there seem to be cavalry, but it is difficult for scouts to get information about the number.

But judging from Dashun's notice to local merchants and common people, there should be quite a few, because the notice said that they would buy beans and horse feed, and the quantity was extremely large. I am afraid that the number of cavalry arriving in the future will not be less than hundreds, maybe thousands.

Ota Ziqing was a little impatient, feeling that he couldn't fight. In such a narrow terrain, he could only fight recklessly, and I'm afraid there would be heavy casualties.

In particular, the once abandoned Yonago City is being built and reinforced by the local people hired by the Dashun Army. There are so many firearms that it may be difficult to conquer.

But if you can't beat it, you have to fight, otherwise you can't fight until the Dashun Army repairs the fort and the follow-up reinforcements arrive.

He has ordered Ikeda Jizheng in Iwami to move closer to capture Yonago as soon as possible.

Otherwise, if the Dashun Army has a firm foothold here, they can use this place as a transit point, and they can land anywhere from Xiaguan to the ports around here.

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At the port of Yonago, the Dashun Army seems to be increasing its troops, but it is actually ready to withdraw.

The Qingqi scouts have already detected Ota Ziqing's army, and they have also noticed the Ikeda successor army in the direction of Ishimi.

General Staff Wu Fangrui dismissed the two armies.

"Yonago's terrain is very suitable for defense. With the help of engineers, they borrowed the rice stored in Yonago Town and Matsue Castle to hire Japanese people to build the city. In fact, it is impossible for them to conquer it."

"If our army can transform Yonago City into a simple bastion, it is estimated that they will not be able to attack it next year."

"The three elements of a quick attack on the bastion: artillery with a triple advantage, well-trained engineers, and grenadiers specially born for slope protection. None of the Japanese have any of these three types, and as many as they come, they die."

"Fast attack can't be done, only siege."

"But in the case of a siege... we have naval support. In fact, if we want to, we can stay here as long as we want."

Liu Yu earned his fame by attacking the bastion, and the people he taught were naturally very concerned about this kind of thing.This is also caused by Dashun's special external environment. The northwest and northern Mongolia need to rely on the tactics of defending the bastions to ensure their loyalty.

Bastion offensive and defensive is also the special skill of the army after the reform of Dashun Army. Wu Fangrui could see the weakness of the Japanese army at a glance.

He is not boasting, even if the French Marshal Vauban, who is known as the No. 1 attacking bastion, has the soldiers of Ota Ziqing and Ikeda Tsugumasa in his hands, he will have nothing to do with the bastion that Dashun is going to build.

It can attack the city, but it can't change enough cannons, which means it can't.

Wu Fangrui's evaluation of the level of the Japanese army in front of him is that it is not as good as Zheng's army 80 years ago if only talking about siege.

The muskets are completely similar to those of the Zheng family back then, and the number of cannons is much less than that of the Zheng family.

Even, the Japanese at this time may not be able to defeat the Ming army a hundred years ago... At least, they are much worse than the long-fighting army in the Japanese invasion of Imjin Korea.

He felt that in fact, this battle didn't need to be such a toss at all, just landed on Kyushu Island, what can the Japanese army do to me?

With such deep internal conflicts in the Wa Kingdom, Wu Fangrui did not believe that the princes of Kyushu Island could implement benevolent governance.Wouldn't the local people regard the Dashun Army as the king's division?

From the standpoint of pure efficiency, Wu Fangrui felt that the navy's doing this was just taking off his pants and farting.

He is a soldier, he only thinks about efficiency, and he doesn't have to think about the many games that people in the court have to think about. He can't help but feel a little depressed in his heart-the battle has been fought like this, and he can't show the army's ability at all, and he can't show his ability at all. .

Going straight into Wawang City, in his opinion, in the current situation, changing a dog to be the staff general will have the same result.

Hearing this, Li Yan knew in his heart that Wu Fangrui made this statement out of desperation.The army may not be able to fight such a battle, and there is no chance to perform, so they have to live their mouths.

"General Wu, whether we want to attack or not defend, we have made a general decision, so we can't change it. The navy doesn't want to sit here and attract all the main force of the Japanese, creating a void and creating a chance for the army to land in Changzhou. Use maneuvers Using such a good navy as a fortress garrison is really wasteful."

"From the point of view of General Wu, how much can we fight in the field against such Japanese with our current strength?"

Li Yan didn't know about the mobilization of Wa Kingdom, but the interrogation of several prisoners captured by Qingqi scouts before told that the troops on the opposite side came from the direction of Okayama and Osaka. It can be seen that the direction of Osaka is now very empty.

However, it is not clear how many people there are in Wa Kingdom near Heian-kyo, north of Osaka.

Wu Fangrui smiled wryly in his heart, thinking about field battles?I'm afraid there is no chance.

Half-day laughed and said: "Seventh Prince, from my point of view, there is no problem if five thousand breaks five thousand. Their cavalry is very poor, their artillery is even worse, and their muskets are still using matchlock iron cannons. These Japanese came from the direction of Osaka. , there are not many troops around the Japanese King City."

"Osaka is like Songjiang, the Japanese royal city should be like Jinling, and the capital of this dynasty is like the Japanese kingdom in Edo. Since more than [-] Japanese people have been mobilized, and the soldiers and horses in Changzhou and Kyushu cannot be moved, how many can there be near the royal city?" soldiers?"

"If Xiaobin is like Tianjin, the Waren King City may also be in Xianghe, where Xianghe Meatloaf is located. Even if you climb it, you can climb there in five days."

Speaking of this, Wu Fangrui felt that this battle was really boring.

The low-key investigation of Xiaobin City has been completed.

The scouts landed on a fast boat not far from Xiaobin City, and found out the general situation of Xiaobin Port.

As far as the geographical location is concerned, it is quite similar to Tianjin to Beijing.

However, the distance between Xiaobin and Wawangcheng is not as far as Tianjin to Beijing, at most it is equivalent to Dagukou to Langfang.

The terrain of Xiaobin City is so perfect, it is difficult for Dashun to find such a port suitable for defense.

The entire bay is like a person stretching out his arms, surrounded by the void, and two protruding peninsulas form a natural deep-water bay.

The entrance to the bay is only three or four miles wide, and there are mountain peaks on both sides of the surrounding peninsula.Once it breaks into this gap, there will be a bay with a width of more than ten miles, which is very suitable for the navy to deploy.

Even... Even if two forts were built at the entrance of the bay surrounding the peninsula, Dashun's navy would have to land from somewhere else and go around behind the forts to take down the forts, which would waste at least one day.

However, there is no half of the fort.

What's even more bizarre is that Xiaobin City was built on the delta of the river mouth, less than eighty feet away from the wharf.

At this distance, there is no need for naval guns. Those sailors who squatted on the mast and shot the officers on the opposite deck and used miniature muskets can shoot to the castle tower of Xiaobin Castle with guns on board.

This may be the most suitable terrain for warships to exert their maximum effect, and there may not even be a second place.

Wu Fangrui wondered what was being fought in this battle. It was so easy to have the opportunity to lead troops, but in the end it was this kind of battle. How could he show his abilities?It is said that the Seventh Prince is the main general, but in fact, isn't he who is actually in command?
Thinking about it again, the Xindao Privy Council has made great achievements for those who are good fighters, but it has suffered for the following brothers who want to make meritorious deeds.When I go back, I will take the title of conquering the city of the Japanese king, and when I brag about it on the wine table, if others ask me, what do I say?Just say that there was no war at all, and you went to Japan for a while?
Li Yan didn't think so much, he just wanted to get an accurate analysis of the Japanese's combat power from the mouth of this man who followed Liu Yu to fight Junggar.

In his opinion, the Japanese are vulnerable, which is just what he wants.

After pondering for a while, he picked up a pen and wrote four characters on the paper, leaving them for the Japanese generals who arrived in Yonago in a few days.

"Your gentlemen are free."

(End of this chapter)